Editing Dogma (film) (section)

===Deleted scenes===
On the film's official website, Smith described a scene that did not make the final cut: a climactic face-off in the hospital between Silent Bob, a badly burned and half-decomposed triplet, and the Golgothan. The battle was to end with the triplet killing Bethany (temporarily), and God, newly liberated, transforming the Golgothan into flowers. Test audiences felt the scene had "too much Golgothan", and the film's run time already exceeded two hours, so the scene was eliminated.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Scenes That Never Were |url=http://www.dogma-movie.com/pics/hospital/hospitalnf.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728120545/http://www.dogma-movie.com/pics/hospital/hospitalnf.html |archive-date=2012-07-28 |access-date=2009-06-18 |website=Dogma (official site)}}</ref>

Another deleted scene has come to be known as the "''Fat Albert'' sequence". In the strip club, a gang (led by [[Dwight Ewell]]) grows jealous that the stripper is paying more attention to Jay & Silent Bob than to them. The gang confronts them and draws guns. Jay & Silent Bob then defuse the situation by taking to the stage and performing the theme song from ''[[Fat Albert]].'' Rufus realizes that the stripper is the muse Serendipity, and she actually deescalated things by giving Jay & Silent Bob the idea. The sequence was in the film when it screened at [[1999 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]], but was removed before its general release. The scene gained notoriety as fans began speculating as to why it was removed.  On the ''Dogma: Special Edition'' DVD, Smith said the feedback he received was that the scene ran too long and was not very funny.<ref>{{cite AV media | people = Kevin Smith | date = 2001 | title = Dogma: Special Edition Deleted Scenes Introduction | type = DVD | publisher = Columbia TriStar Home Video}}</ref>